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Shown as 'Nottingham', received the compensation for Point a Pierre in Trinidad as devisee and executrix of George Doncaster. In 1828 enslaved people were registered for George Doncaster by an attorney, implying George Doncaster was then alive and an absentee. No further identification has yet been made.
T71/894 Trinidad No. 1683; Ancestry.com, Slave Registers of former British Colonial Dependencies, 1812-1834 [database on-line] Trinidad Personal (Index) 1828.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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£1,877 12s 0d
Awardee
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Executor → Testator
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Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England
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???? - 29th Aug 1873
Free person of colour, slave-owner in Jamaica. Long-term partner and later wife of Thomas Legal Yates. Living in Britain from the mid-1830s until her death in 1873.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Elizabeth Doncaster', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/28113 [accessed 21st November 2024].
